Joe Rogan mentioned on the Wednesday episode of his fashionable podcast that he thinks President Donald Trump could have started the war in Iran to distract the U.S. public from the Epstein files.
During the episode, Rogan’s visitor, Arsenio Hall, claimed that “misdirection” is “the story of American politics.”
Rogan agreed with Hall and argued that former President Bill Clinton started “bombing some other countries” — a reference to the 1999 bombing of then-Yugoslavia — to distract Americans from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The podcast host then claimed the U.S. war in Iran was the newest instance of politicians using war to distract from home points.
“Look, the Epstein files comes out — we go to war with Iran. It’s a good way to get people to stop talking about certain things,” Rogan mentioned.
“You give them a new problem to think about.”
Trump was referenced quite a few instances all through the Epstein files, and his former friendship with the disgraced financier and accused youngster intercourse trafficker is public document.
The president has not been accused of or charged with any crimes relating to Epstein and has insisted that he broke off his friendship with the intercourse offender lengthy earlier than Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution, together with from a minor.
Rogan endorsed Trump in 2024, however his opinion of the president has degraded quickly since the war in Iran started.
The podcaster has criticized Trump’s “Operation Epic Fury” in Iran, warning that it may drag the globe into World War III. He additionally questioned Trump’s age, fearing the 79-year-old could act recklessly as a result of he “doesn’t have much to lose.”
“That’s spooky. That’s spooky. You’re making decisions for babies and children and the future of the world, and you’ve only got 10, maybe 10 years left on Earth if everything goes great,” Rogan mentioned throughout his March 11 podcast.
During the identical episode, Rogan mentioned Trump’s supporters felt “betrayed” by his determination to go to war.
“I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right? He ran on ‘no more wars,’ ‘end these stupid, senseless wars,’ and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it,” Rogan mentioned.
While Rogan and extra reasonable Republicans could have felt betrayed by Trump’s assault on Iran, polling had proven that the president’s MAGA base overwhelmingly help his determination.
Rogan would not think about himself MAGA and just lately referred to as Trump’s base “f****** dorks” bent on fulfilling Biblical end-times prophecies.
On March 26, Rogan complained about Trump’s slogan, saying it “sucks” and that “America is great.”
“Make America greater? I’m down,” Rogan mentioned, earlier than turning his ire on Trump’s MAGA followers.
He mentioned that MAGA has turn out to be “a movement of a bunch of f****** dorks because a lot of them are dorks. A lot of them these really weird, f****** uninteresting, unintelligent people that have got something they cling to and and there’s a lot of people that are just real genuine patriots and they’re all lumped into this one group and you got to accept the dorks, too? F*** that!”
Rogan continued, complaining that “crackpot Christian nationalists” had joined the MAGA movement and were boosting the war in Iran “as a method to get Jesus to return on a white horse.”
The Independent has requested remark from the White House.
